Relaxation Quotations
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| To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. | |||
| - Jane Austen | |||
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| During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight. | |||
| - Fritjof Capra | |||
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| Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. | |||
| - Charlie Chaplin | |||
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| Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest. | |||
| - Euripides | |||
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| Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. | |||
| - Anatole France | |||
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| Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. | |||
| - Natalie Goldberg | |||
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| If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad. | |||
| - Herodotus | |||
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| We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. | |||
| - Etty Hillesum | |||
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| Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. | |||
| - Robert J. J. Sawyer | |||
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| There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. | |||
| - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | |||
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| Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. | |||
| - Ovid | |||
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| When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. | |||
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld | |||
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| To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. | |||
| - Bertrand Russell | |||
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| Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. | |||
| - Ruth Stout | |||
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| He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. | |||
| - Henry David Thoreau | |||
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| Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it. | |||
| - Oprah Winfrey | |||
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| Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. | |||
| - Lin Yutang | |||